Vestfjorddalen
Vestfjorddalen is a valley in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The 30-kilometre long valley stretches from the lake Tinnsjå westwards past Rjukan, Vemork, and Rjukan Falls to the lake Møsvatn in the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 583 metres
- Description: valley in Tinn, Norway
- Also known as: “Vestfjord Valley”, “Vestfjordalen”, and “Vestfjorddal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glupen and Dal Church.
Dal Church
Church
Dal Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Rjukan. It is one of the churches for the Rjukan parish which is part of the Øvre Telemark prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. Dal Church is situated 3 km southwest of Vestfjorddalen.
Mår Hydroelectric Power Station
Power station
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mår Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in Tinn, Telemark, Norway. It operates at an installed capacity of 180 MW, with an average annual production of about 1,145 GW·h. Mår Hydroelectric Power Station is situated 3 km southwest of Vestfjorddalen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rjukan.
Rjukan
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Rjukan is a town in the Tinn municipality of Telemark, Norway. The town was founded in 1908 by Sam Eyde, who started the plan of building a city from scratch, after buying the renowned Rjukan waterfall to make electric power for fertilizer production.
Vestfjorddalen
- Category: landform
- Location: Tinn, Telemark, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Vestfjorddalen” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Vestfjorddalen”
- Chinese: “西峡湾谷”
- Danish: “Vestfjorddalen”
- Irish: “Vestfjorddalen”
- Japanese: “ヴェストフィヨール谷”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestfjorddalen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestfjorddalen”
- Norwegian: “Vestfjorddalen”
- Swedish: “Vestfjorddalen”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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